Kari Hamerschlag

Deputy Director Of Food & Technology

Kari Hamerschlag is the deputy director of the food and technology program, based in Berkeley, California. Kari carries out research and implements market and policy campaigns aimed at reforming animal agriculture, protecting pollinators and promoting sustainable, fair, healthy and resilient food and farming systems. Prior to Friends of the Earth, Kari worked for five years as a senior analyst with the Environmental Working Group where she focused on wide range of food and ag issues including the U.S. farm bill, GMOs, climate change, organic agriculture, food security and conservation policy. Kari has done extensive research on the links between food production and climate change and was the lead author of a comprehensive web-based Meateater’s Guide to Climate Change and Health, and numerous other blog posts, op-eds and reports. Prior to EWG, Kari worked for many years as a sustainable food policy and fair trade consultant. Kari began her career more than twenty years ago as an organizer, researcher and advocate for socially and environmentally sound development policy, focused in Latin America. Kari has a Masters from UC Berkeley in Latin American Studies and City and Regional Planning. She speaks Spanish, French and some Portuguese.

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THURS September 21, 11:00AM PST Extreme Land Restoration 101: Using Soil Biology to Restore Farms, Landscapes, and Ecosytems Back to Life. WEBINAR
Part 3 of the Soil Restoration Series
Presentation By:
Dr. Elaine Ingham with Raleigh Latham
REGISTER AT http://www.sustainabledesignmasterclass.com/sdmcingham

Elaine Ingham is the pioneer of Soil Foodweb studies, and the founder of the Environmental Celebration Institute. For nearly 40 years, Dr. Ingham has made the study of soil restoration her life's work. She has helped thousands of clients across the world to restore their lands' soil biology and fertility, so they can reclaim their livelihoods. Elaine is showing the world that it is never too late to restore soil biology, even when the land seems beyond repair.

If you can understand the soil foodweb, then you can break free of the cycle of degredation. Tune in, so you can learn how compost can transform land degraded land back into productive, stable ecosystems. Whether you're a farmer, biologist, gardener, rancher, land manager, or simply interested, this webinar will open your eyes to the potential of compost and soil biology. Join us for this never before seen look into extreme land restoration.

Dr. Elaine Ingham is going to show you...
Never before seen case studies of soil restoration on farms, ranches and landscapes in extreme climates.
Why fertilizers, insecticides, hebicides, and tilling are destroying your soil, and why you don't actually need them.
How uniquely targeted compost treatments can lead to enormous tranformations in productivity, fertility, and environmental recovery on a large scale.
Why your soil contains every mineral and nutrient in abundance, and how soil microbiology in compost can help you access them.
How you can use compost and compost teas on different scales, from a home garden, to a 1000+ acre ranch.
Why restoring soil biology can protect landscapes and farms against extreme weather, drought, heat, and climate chaos.
How you can learn to understand your soil biology and your soil health so you can make the right compost treatments to restore your land.
Why restoring soil biology is profitable in the short and long term.

About Elaine...
Drr. Elaine Ingham is recognized around the world as the leader in soil microbiology and research of the soil foodweb.

With decades of experience as a professor, researcher, and soil benefactor consulting in the field she has helped thousands of homeowners, growers, and influential companies understand healthy soil via healthy organisms. Elaine transmits sophisticated information in an easty to understand way.

Her mission is to show that the key to making any plant thrive, from the turf on golf courses to vegetables in the garden to orchard trees is to team up with suitable soil microbes. Dr. Ingham conntects the loop from chemical, biological, to available plant nutrients, and has helped thousands of people across the world restore their soil biology.